Mon.Nov 07, 2022

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Nano Dimension highlight its portfolio at Formnext

Design World

Nano Dimension Ltd., a leading supplier of Additively Manufactured Electronics (“AME”) and multi-dimensional polymer, metal & ceramic Additive Manufacturing (“AM”) 3D printers, will showcase how its products and technologies are reinventing manufacturing at the upcoming Formnext 2022 event in Frankfurt, Germany, November 15-18 (Stand C119). Nano Dimension’s vision to transform additive electronics and additive manufacturing […].

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Ignition Adds Cloud Edition Plus Many Updates

Gary Mintchell

I think that hybrid might just be the future as IT managers review the costs and constraints of depending too much on cloud vendors (AWS, Microsoft, Google). Customers of Inductive Automation’s Ignition platform must be asking for a public cloud implementation, though. I’ve highlighted a blog post by Dante Augello of Inductive discussing some of the reasoning and features of a Cloud Edition coming in 2023.

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How to Identify, Quantify, and Mitigate Risk

Automation World

In industrial operations, understanding what a failure of any system, component, or process could mean to your operations is key to overall risk mitigation.

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Material Insights: Resin prices dip; report says plastic pollution goals at risk

Plastics News

North American polystyrene and PVC prices continue to fall, DuPont reports on one successful and one failed M&A deal, and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation notes that government action is needed to achieve ambitious voluntary plastic pollution reduction goals.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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VpCI-649 from Cortec helps eliminate corrosion during hydrotesting

The Fabricator

Cortec’s VpCI-649 is a concentrated liquid formulation that combines contact and vapor-phase corrosion inhibitors to form a molecular protective layer on metal surfaces below and above the water level.

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Some bag makers ‘confident’ in challenge to California bag claims

Plastics News

The plastic bag industry's response to California Attorney General Rob Bonta's recyclability challenge has been muted, perhaps reflecting concerns there could be millions of dollars in civil penalties.

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The trend to mend: how repair shops are leading a fixing revolution

The Guardian Manufacturing

More everyday items are being salvaged, with cost of living crisis expected to increase such interest The Lonely Parts Club sits in a plastic box just along from a couple of tired-looking tea urns, a slick inkjet printer and a line of “rescue toasters”. The motley collection of technology is neatly stacked on the shelves of the Fixing Factory, where volunteers in bright orange aprons chat to people seeking to give their gadgets a second life.

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Why a Duck, Lego?

Plastics Today

Visitors to the Lego House in Denmark this month have a rare opportunity to take home a limited-edition 3D-printed Lego duck. They have been selling online for hundreds of dollars.

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Plastic lumber extruder Green Fox to invest $7.2M in new plant

Plastics News

The family-owned firm started as a captive operation, providing polymer lumber to sister companies Little Cottage Co., which makes outdoor playhouses and similar products, and Wildridge, an outdoor-furniture maker.

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Parlez-vous Manufacturing?

Plastics Today

Advanced Design & Manufacturing and co-locate Expoplast return to Montréal with more than 40 expert-led sessions and a packed exhibition hall on Nov. 9 and 10.

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Modernizing MES: A Guide for Complex Manufacturers Adapting to Industry 4.0

As engineers push the boundaries of innovation with groundbreaking hardware products, their success depends largely on the speed and efficiency of production. The challenge? Manual processes and disparate systems lead to multiple versions of documents, incomplete records, and duplicated work, creating a chaotic system of records that is difficult to manage.

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Innovative Medical Application Winner: Double Hand and Face Transplant

Additive Manufacturing

The medical additive manufacturing and 3D printing community is always working to use technology to improve patient care and change lives. Last week at the AM Medical Summit , seven innovators shared just a few of these stories with the audience selecting their favorite innovative medical application as the double hand and face transplant case presented by Alyssa Glennon, from Materialise.

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New website to help Qld manufacturers save energy costs

AU Manufacturing

The Queensland government has launched a new website to help local manufacturers find energy cost savings through renewable energy transition. . The Energy Sustainability website, developed as part of the Advancing Renewables in Manufacturing Project, is intended to provide manufacturers with a comprehensive understanding of their energy bills and allow them to assess their business through an energy management plan.

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Northrop Grumman signs Quickstep Holdings to support F-35 program

Manufacturer's Monthly

Northrop Grumman Corporation signed a six-year agreement with Quickstep Holdings to manufacture Australian-made components to support the global F-35 program. The order was signed under an existing Memorandum of Understanding with work to be completed in Sydney. Northrop Grumman is a principal partner to Lockheed Martin Corporation in the design, development, production and sustainment of the F-35 multirole fighter for the United States and its allies.

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MFC solution provider Fabric strikes alliance with Reply for supply chain execution capabilities

Modern Materials Handling

Fabric’s robotic capabilities and automation to gain integration connector, higher-level orchestration functions, via partnership and integration tie-in to the LEA Reply supply-chain execution platform

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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5 ways to stay relevant in your engineering career

Manufacturer's Monthly

The world and its technologies are rapidly changing. Engineers are at the heart of this. Climate change, sovereign capability, innovation and infrastructure are just some of the areas in in which engineering plays a crucial part. To that end it’s never been more important for engineers to continue learning – to adapt, pivot and move their careers forward.

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Eco Flexibles’ Monomaterial Packaging LCA Confirms Sustainable Benefits

Plastics Today

Life cycle assessment of Eco Flexibles’ EcoFlow film versus standard materials finds CO2 footprint reduced an average of 35%.

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New research centre to develop ultra-precise measuring device

Manufacturer's Monthly

The Australian Research Council (ARC) announced that RMIT University will lead a consortium of universities and industry partners in a new $72 million ARC Centre of Excellence in Optical Microcombs for Breakthrough Science (COMBS). The collaborative research centre will develop ultra-precise measuring devices that could enable high-speed internet, better medical screening technologies and carbon emissions monitoring.

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Rev up or burn out: ranking popular vehicle brands’ progress to zero emissions

AU Manufacturing

Media Release by The Climate Council. New analysis shows major vehicle manufacturers popular in Australia are starting to get serious about zero emissions, and paving the way for strong fuel efficiency standards that will help make electric vehicles (EVs) cheaper and more available. The Climate Council’s Race to Zero Ranking released today shows that some manufacturers are quickly moving towards electrifying their fleets, with major brands mapping out a pathway to sell nothing but zero emissio

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5 Ways New Manufacturing Companies Are Accelerating Innovation

Next-gen manufacturers are redesigning factories to enable agility at every stage of production. From more timely communication between engineers and technicians to technologies that empower real-time collaboration, they’re getting ahead by making iterations and improvements during a build, across the production line at scale. This level of flexibility means they can develop more quickly than their legacy counterparts.

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Acquisition extends tire recycler into polymer markets

Plastics News

Prism Worldwide LLC was built on technologies and chemistries that turn waste tires into new elastomers. And with the Nov. 2 acquisition of CRC Polymer Systems Inc., Prism is taking its polymer expertise even further.

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The wide world of government grants

Manufacturer's Monthly

Australian Governments offer billions of dollars of grant funding over approximately 5,000 programs. To complicate matters, the grants landscape is constantly changing, with programs expiring and emerging daily. Manufacturers’ Monthly interviewed Dr Bec Barnes, RSM ’s national grants manager. Barnes is devoted to helping companies navigate and access Government funding, turning a convoluted grants landscape into strategic dollars at the right time.

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North American industrial blow molders post big gains

Plastics News

This week our annual ranking of North American blow molders swoops in on a puff of air to the beat of an industrial drum.

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No maintenance, no re-tensioning, no servicing required

Manufacturer's Monthly

Tension decay on conventional v-belts means downtime, as re-tensioning is inevitable, and future repairs and replacements are highly probable. When operation managers account for the time, labour, and material for v-belt maintenance over the course of a year, the costs can add up quickly. With product demand steadily rising around the world across every industry, manufacturers are looking for better, faster, stronger solutions that can withstand the rigours of continuous productivity– and tradit

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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North American industrial blow molders post big gains

Plastics News

This week our annual ranking of North American blow molders swoops in on a puff of air to the beat of an industrial drum.

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Wayland Additive emphasises post-processing & broad material palette at Formnext 2022

AU Manufacturing

Media Release by Wayland Additive. On stand B139 in Hall 12 at this year’s Formnext, 15-18 November in Frankfurt, Wayland Additive will once again be showcasing its Calibur3 metal AM machine. The Calibur3 features the Neubeam® process which delivers on all of the advantages of metal electron beam (eBeam) powder bed fusion (PBF) technology while overcoming the troublesome issues that have traditionally limited wider adoption.

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Os cinco principais benefícios do Pick to Light explicados

Bastian Solution

Você já precisou fazer compras em um mercado que nunca frequentou? Você fica com aquela sensação de impotência de tentar descobrir o que exatamente é uma “Fruta do Conde” e muito menos tentar localizá-la na seção de produtos (graças a Deus “fruta” está no nome). Claro, talvez você tenha algumas pistas para ajudá-lo a chegar lá (placas de corredor, intuição geral), mas sabe que terá uma frustrante caça ao tesouro na próxima hora para completar sua lista.

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Ascend buys majority stake in carpet recycler Circular Polymers

Plastics News

Nylon 6/6 resin maker Ascend Performance Materials has purchased a majority stake in California-based carpet recycler Circular Polymers LLC.

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How Legacy Tools Are Failing Inventive Manufacturing Engineers

Bringing new and improved products to market takes more than just good ideas. It requires agile, iterative production, and real-time collaboration. Most manufacturers recognize the risk of not adapting, but they’re hampered by technologies like MES that haven’t kept up with the pace of hardware innovation. As new manufacturers enter the market with technologically progressive ways of building at scale, existing manufacturers must adapt to stay relevant.

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Digital transformation and IIoT impact on process manufacturing

Control Engineering

Digital transformation and IIoT insights. Digital transformation and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) allow manufacturers to work smarter and faster by giving them access to a lot of information all at once. The digital transformation journey should emphasize better control and automation as well as empowering and making workers better at their jobs and enhancing their skillsets.

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Lung disease detecting AI could cut winter pressure on the NHS

E&T

The diseases are potentially serious infections that mainly affect the lungs but often require a combination of different diagnostic tests such as CT scans, blood tests, X-rays, and ultrasounds. These tests can be expensive, and there are often lengthy waiting times for results. University of the West of Scotland (UWS) researchers originally created an AI to quickly detect Covid-19 from X-ray images.

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Digital supply chain transformation at Diageo

Modern Materials Handling

The global leader in premium drinks, is turning to advanced planning tools and visibility to transform its supply chain

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Why partnerships are the key to sustainability innovation in a digital world

E&T

While ‘digital transformation’ claims to be a magic wand for businesses needing innovation, the truth is that more than two-thirds of all digital transformation efforts end up failing. Others are left in ‘pilot purgatory’: according to the World Economic Forum, more than 70 per cent of industrial businesses are stuck here. The answer to scalable, sustainable success?

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.